The Persistence of Memory
Dalí's surrealist masterpiece features melting clocks in barren landscape. The work explores time, memory, consciousness, and reality's fluidity. Soft watches suggest time's subjective nature and dreams' logic. Ants and flies hint at decay. The painting demonstrates unconscious mind's strange logic and challenges rational perception of time and space.
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